Peotr
06-25-2011, 09:57 PM
I finally have internet in Orofino (my parents hometown, where I have been living). It's even 5 Mbs cable, although the lag is noticeable.
Growing up here I never realized that we really are in the fucking woods - we're 30 miles from the edge of the Clearwater national forest, but that's 30 miles of trees.
A shitty picture I took with the camera on my phone - the neighbor's lawn:
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Notice the deer near the street sign - one behind, and one to the right. They're freaking everywhere, and they drive my terrier nuts. They walk through town in the daylight. They walk through lawns, they walk down the sidewalk, they walk down the street. If you have a garden, it's fenced. We also have pheasant, quail and raccoons. Raccoons are cute until they chew a hole through all your garbage bags, because the trash guys won't take your trash if the bag won't lift out of the can whole. We have crows and we have an assload of wild turkeys, too, they're as thick as peanut butter, although the turkeys don't really come into town until winter. But since my house is 30 yards from the edge of the woods you can hear them bitching at each other in the evening.
Orofino has a population of about 3200, but we're the county seat, and we're considered the big city for this neck of the Clearwater. Life in a small town.
Growing up here I never realized that we really are in the fucking woods - we're 30 miles from the edge of the Clearwater national forest, but that's 30 miles of trees.
A shitty picture I took with the camera on my phone - the neighbor's lawn:
6910
Notice the deer near the street sign - one behind, and one to the right. They're freaking everywhere, and they drive my terrier nuts. They walk through town in the daylight. They walk through lawns, they walk down the sidewalk, they walk down the street. If you have a garden, it's fenced. We also have pheasant, quail and raccoons. Raccoons are cute until they chew a hole through all your garbage bags, because the trash guys won't take your trash if the bag won't lift out of the can whole. We have crows and we have an assload of wild turkeys, too, they're as thick as peanut butter, although the turkeys don't really come into town until winter. But since my house is 30 yards from the edge of the woods you can hear them bitching at each other in the evening.
Orofino has a population of about 3200, but we're the county seat, and we're considered the big city for this neck of the Clearwater. Life in a small town.